FAT Filesystem

[Wolfram Wadepohl]

My swissbit CF spec tells me there is a "Flush Cache" ATA command (0xe7) to
write all buffers to flash. Is this implemented?

Cláudio Silva schrieb:
> From: "Leon Pollak" <leonp at plris.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 12:20 PM
> To: <rtems-users at rtems.org>
> Cc: <rtems-users at rtems.com>
> Subject: Re: FAT Filesystem
> 
>> On Wednesday May 5 2010, Wolfram Wadepohl wrote:
>>
>>> To all specialists of the FAT filesystem and medis buffering:
>>>
>>> A power off at the wrong time can cause the filsystem to a inconsistent
>>> state. Is there a mechanism , like the UNIX sync command, to write 
>>> buffers
>>> to disk and transfer all buffering to a safe state.
>>>
>>> How long does this take, esp. when using a CF/SD card.
>>> Thx.
>>
>> To your last question.
>>
>> Please, note, that even when you receive the acknowledge from the CF
>> controller about write operation success completion, actually it does not
>> mean, that the data was actually written into the flash memories. This 
>> only
>> means that controller has accepted data and put it into its internal 
>> memory.
>> You need to keep the power ON for the controller to finish the 
>> operation...:-)
>>
>> -- 
>> Leon

-- 
Wolfram Wadepohl
Forschung & Entwicklung
E&K AUTOMATION GMBH



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